Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?

[Scampada]

Is it possible to set a background image in the framebuffer console?

No graphics-kernel;
No X;
No vga= in grub;

"load_video" && "set gfxpayload=1024x600-24" in the grub. Can I?

[Scampada]

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=11368.0

I believe the answer is hidden somewhere there. I need fbcondecor, but it needs somehow patched or rebuilt kernel. Or was it patched already? Investigating... any intelligence would be appreciated

[curaga]

Only possible with kernel patches as you found.

[Scampada]

And it is not possible to use ttf fonts in framebuffer console? I've looked around and found no way.

[Juanito]

If you can boot using uefi, there is the possibility to use different fonts (unicode.pf2 in the grub2-efi extension for example), but I don't believe the possibility exists with legacy-bios boot (I could be wrong).

[curaga]

The grub font only affects grub I believe, the linux console can't use TTF fonts.

[Scampada]

Well, then should I patch the kernel what exactly do I do?
I've downloaded a linux-kernel-patched.txz from there: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/6.x/x86/release/src/kernel/

Why is it so big? About 70M of size. And then, should I just unzip it and compile as though it was some regular source?

[Juanito]

There are several (many?) threads in these forums that explain what to do, but basically:

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$ make mrproper
[copy tinycore config .config]
$ make oldconfig
$ make

[Scampada]

I found something of that... Don't know of what value...

    FrameBuffer support

    Fontconfig + FreeType2 + TTF Fonts

    Framebuffer terminal which supports Fontconfig

Is there something like framebuffer terminal supporting ttf in TC?
Or that was just a chitchatting somewhere in the Web of no value?